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Scientists at the С����Ƶ and around the world study cephalopods to learn about everything from camouflage and limb dexterity to regeneration and neurobiology. The hummingbird bobtail squid has an interesting biology and is easy to raise in a lab environment. That, coupled with its small size, short time to maturity, and ability to produce a large number of offspring, makes it an ideal model for research.

E. berryi are bred in С����Ƶ’s Cephalopod Mariculture Facility and the species has become a successful system for studying development, neurobiology, and RNA editing. Scientists at the С����Ƶ are developing new tools in this species—including genome editing with CRISPR-Cas9.